That content creator is Matt Watson, also known as MattsWhatItIs, who posted a video of his finds on Sunday. While YouTube repeatedly claims that objectionable material like conspiracy videos represent well under 1% of its overall content, that would still represent millions of videos.

The suicide instructions are sandwiched between clips from the popular Nintendo game Splatoon and delivered by a man speaking in front of what appears to be a green screen - an apparent effort to have him blend in with the rest of the animated video. Others are uploaded from accounts that seem to collect videos of minors.

According to Wired, some of the children appear to be as young as five.

According to Bloomberg, all Nestle companies in the US have paused advertising on YouTube, a spokeswoman for the company said Wednesday in an email.

At YouTube's scale, is this even fixable? "How easy it is now to wreck a YouTuber's career, just leave insults on their videos and THEY get punished for it!" noted rapper Dan Bull.

This purge of comments and channel terminations follows after a USA man, called Matt Watson, uploaded a video titled YouTube Is Facilitating the Sexual Exploitation of Children, and it's Being Monetised (2019) which caused a huge backlash from YouTuber Keem Star who shared his thoughts on his channel DramaAlert.

In January, YouTubeannounced a change to its content-recommendations system aimed at reducing the recommendation of "borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways".

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Kvitova, Halep breeze into quarters in windy Dubai
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